ghoulish prominence

Some nice prominences from a sunny weekend:

Prominence 
10/12/25
22:08 UTC

anyone see a ghoul dancing on the sun?

or maybe kokopelli (wikipedia)

animation from the day before (worse seeing):

Solar Prominence 
30 minute animation
10/11/2025 
19:37 to 19:57 UTC

Imaging details:

Here's the lunt on a tracking mount:

Lunt 60 PT B1200 single stacked

zwo ASI 290MM

20 second captures

best 75%

animation

10/11/25

unguided solar tracking on celestron CGX

single frame

10/12/25

manual guiding with alt-azm mount

East Bluff, CA

as you can see, the "seeing" wasn't great during the animation with frames seeming to go in and out of focus.  

took a stupid amount of time to process the 59 frame continuous animation.  

should have put a delay between frames.  

the seeing and prominence shape was better the second day, but didn't have the time for an animation

animation

Frames captured=2328

FPS (avg.)=116

Shutter=0.357ms

Gain=351 (58%)

single frame

composite of two captures:

Frames captured=2328

FPS (avg.)=116

Shutter=1.925ms

Gain=351 (58%)

Frames captured=2325

FPS (avg.)=116

Shutter=1.215ms

Gain=351 (58%)

captured in firecapture

stacked in autostakkert

combined/finished in photoshop. 

maybe a little oversharpened on the single frame ;)

falcon over the back bay

trying this wide field composite of the entire falcon path over the back bay

by a stroke of luck, i managed to center the rocket's arc in the wide field frame.  next time i'll position more to the right to catch the arc centered over the water.  

close up shows the 1st stage trail with intermittent bursts below the rocket and a smaller trail of the fairings:

Imaging details:
Newport Back Bay
7/18/25 
approximately 19:55 - 19:59 Local
nikon D850
Sigma 15mm F/2.8 EX DG fisheye

video capture 30 frames/sec

this is and "artistic" composite of a video requiring a lot of work on photoshop

simulating one long exposure

the video was output to individual frames which were combined in groups of 500 in lighten mode

next came separate processing for the sky and foreground:

sky combined in lighten mode after airplane streaks removed

foreground combined in darken mode to remove car trails.

then final lightening of the sky and rocket trail with curves.  

if anyone has a better way to stack the video in lighten mode, please let me know